Improvement in coal-scuttles



2 Sheets--Sheet 2.

G. HOWLAND.

`Gual-Scutfles.

Patented Feb. 4, 1873.

` WITNESSES:

ttorneys.

UNI'rEn V:DATES ATENT @Felon IMPROVEMENT IN COAL-SCUTTLES.

Specification forming'prt of Letters Patent No. 135,554, dated February4, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GARDNER Heumann, of Brunswick, in the county ot'Rensselaer, New York, have invented aI new and usel'ul Coal-Scuttle, ofwhich the folowing is a specification: i

Nature and Objects of the Invention.

My invention, although especially designed forcoal-scuttlesor buckets,is capable, by slight moditications, of beingapplied to various uses,such as cooks hitter-buckets, milk-buckets, and even slop-pails.

ln the accompanying drawing, which represents my invention as adapted tothe purpows of a coalbucket, Figure l is a. perspective view ot thescuttle in condition t'or heilig' tilled.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view ofthe same in the act of being carried.Fig. 3 is a vertical section ot' the scuttleas seen in the act ofdischarging a part of its contents.

rlhe body A of the scuttle is supported on a customary foot-flange, B,and has projecting from its rear a customary tipping-handle, C.

It also i'lares upward, and that portion back ot' or ld F of therepresented nearly parabolic crowning t'orm, so as to present a concavesurface to the contents of the scuttle, and to afford, in conjunctionwith the spout E, a wide but shallow discharge-aperture, capalhle'ofbeing enlarged by lifting ot' the lid. The said lid F is at. its rearedge hinged to the forward edge ot' the sloping cover D, and near tothis rear edge is provided with a fixed handle, Il, by which the lid Fmay be opened land supported in the open sloping position for fillingrepresented in Fig. 1, or be used in place of a bail for carrying' thescuttle, as seen in Fig.2 or be used in conjunction with thetippinghandle (J to cant the scuttle and discharge any desired part ot'its contents; and said discharge may be regulated to any extent by thesimple act of elevating or depressing the said lid. 1t will be seen thatin the open condition, as represented in Fig. 1, the lid F becomesserviceable asa guard or chute to conduct the coa-l into the scuttle inthe act of lling the saine.

Claim.

I claim as new and ot my invention- A pail or scuttle formed with lip E,hinged flap or lid F, and lifting and tipping hanples H and C, the wholeheilig formed and arranged substantially as and for the vpurposedescribed.

' GARDNER HOWLAND.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM A. PETERS, EDGAR O. HOWLAND.

